Venetian 18th century Luigi XV style rounded desk in walnut-root and inlaid in rosewood

Venetian 18th century Luigi XV style rounded desk in walnut-root and inlaid in rosewood, for entry or office. The polishing enhances the grain of the precious walnut. This unique desk is a real product 100% luxury Made in Italy.

Model Description

Model Structure

The centre room desk is perfect for entries or small offices and it is decorated on all sides. The front has 5 drawers and a central removable reading tablet. The four supporting legs are slender and cabriole shaped.

Raw Material

The inside of this Venetian 18th century Luigi XV style rounded desk in walnut-root and inlaid in rosewood is completely made of solid spruce wood. whereas the coating of the external inlays is made of streaked nut, Ferrarese walnut-root and bois de rose. The veneering is 4 mm thick, as in vogue in 18th-century craftsmanship. The handles are handmade in bronze.

Manufacture

The frame of the desk is assembled with vertically sawn spruce axes in te right shape and put together to create the rounded shape of the furniture. The structure in solid spruce wood is smoothed with rasps and abrasive papers to make it smooth and perfectly shaped. Inlaid in all its outer structure with a thick coating (veneering with a thickness of 4 mm) in streaked walnut, in the middle section, there is the precious Ferrarese walnut-root book match processed with a specular drawing, with the same processing in vogue in Venetian 18th century. Between the walnut and the walnut-root, there is an inlaid thread in bois de rose, an exotic pinkish wood. The edge of the desktop is rounded in walnut with a precious vertical grain. The drawers are put together with handmade dovetail joints. The desk is finally polished with natural finishing to highlight the natural walnut root's chromatism and protected with white beeswax, 97% virgin product.

Size of the model in the picture

The Venetian rounded and inlaid desk is available in 2 sizes 102x63x78h. – 122x74x78h. and it is customizable for sizes, type of woods and finishing.

Model History

Century of use

The original Venetian 18th century Luigi XV style rounded desk in walnut-root and inlaid in rosewood dates back to the first half of 18th century.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

The original desk is in the entrance of Palazzo Malipiero, in San Marco's sestriere, Venice. In that period, that is 1730, the desk was used to keep the accounts of the palace. We have retrieved the documents and we noticed some ink spots and stamp marks on the desktop. We fell in love with the elegance and originality of the furniture so we decided to reproduce the original in 2 sizes, only changing the polishing, for a desk which is perfect both for classic and contemporary furnishing.Thanks to our passion for Venetian furniture and more than 55 years of experience, we are the only Italian company able to reproduce in all its details this Venetian 18th century Luigi XV style rounded desk in walnut-root and inlaid in rosewood. The furniture is designed, handcrafted and inlaid in Vangelista Mobili 1960's art laboratory, 100% luxury Made in Italy.